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Live Wire·Archive September 22, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: The labs shipped cheaper and faster this cycle; the checks - Britain's testers, OpenAI's mathematicians, a still-unnamed US czar - are visibly lagging.
After 120 Children Died, Centcom Rebuilt Its AI Targeting
Officials say Centcom changed how it vets targets, added open-source feeds to track civilians and made dozens of upgrades to Palantir's Maven after the Minab school strike - the Pentagon's own review is still unreleased, and some officials warn another Minab remains too likely.
DefenseScoop: Maven users went 50,000 to 100,000; 13,000 targets in 38 days

Ten Days After Asking for a Slowdown, Both Labs Halve Prices
OpenAI cut GPT-6 API prices 50% with Sol and Luna minutes after Anthropic's Opus 5.5 landed at 40% lower running cost - the first releases since Amodei's pacing call, and both labs name cheap Chinese open weights as the pressure.
The Decoder: GPT-6 Sol and Luna halve prices but barely move performance The Verge: Opus 5.5 ships with stricter cyber safeguards after the escape incidents METR: Anthropic held redaction rights over the unpaid predeployment review it signed off
Beijing Probes DeepSeek for Feeding Claude
China's internet regulator is examining whether police, military and corporate data reached Anthropic after the US lab said its labs pushed millions of exchanges through Claude to distill it - per The Information, with no sanctions announced.
The Decoder: Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 tops open models; Xiaomi is also on Anthropic's list
No Global Rules, and It's 'Super Intelligence' Now
The US 'totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control' AI, Trump told the assembly, ordering every federal document to say 'super intelligence' - a name settled by social-media poll, hours before Amodei and Altman brief the Security Council.
Gizmodo: the name came from three rounds of Truth Social and X voting
Ghost Note OpenAI's Trainers Fired for Using AI